English Home Language: King of Shadows
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Access expires 14 December 2024
Suitable for: 12 – 15 years / CAPS Gr 8 – 9
- 17 Videos (> 5 1/2 hrs)
- 17 Worksheets
- 17 Memos
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Take a trip with Nathan Field – an 11-year-old American drama student chosen to perform at The New Globe Theatre in London with The Company of Boys. The year is 1999. The boys will perform two Shakespearean plays at the newly constructed Globe. Nat plays Puck in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" …opposite Oberon – the king of the fairies – and performed by William Shakespeare himself. How is this possible? You will have to come along to witness Nat's journey of a lifetime.
A fantastical story, filled with non-fiction, eases you into exploring Shakespeare's work. 2-in-1: Study a novel and learn the fundamentals of the Shakespearean play: "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Even if Susan Cooper's "King of Shadows" is not the book you are reading, this content will still be invaluable to you. Learn about characterisation, setting, background, plot, themes and point of view. Lessons that require reading the novel will include the relevant extracts. In addition, the language and grammar components will help you practise crucial concepts like connotations, emotive language, figures of speech and summarising skills.
More than five and a half hours of video are included along with accompanying worksheets and memos.
- 01 Pre-reading and beginning of Ch 1
- 02 Ch 1 - Reading
- 03 Ch 2 - Introduction to The New Globe Theatre
- 04 Ch 2 - Listening comprehension - "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
- 05 Listening and speaking - An introduction to Elizabethan England
- 06 Ch 3 and 4 - Reading and viewing a novel - Comprehension
- 07 Ch 5 - Reading and writing - Writing a summary
- 08 Ch 6 - Reading and viewing literary text
- 09 Ch 7 and 8 - Reading and understanding
- 10 Ch 9 and 10 - Reading and summarising a novel
- 11 Ch 11 and 12 - Reading extracts from a novel
- 12 Ch 13 - Listening and speaking - Summarising a novel
- 13 Ch 14 - Reading and viewing literary text
- 14 Ch 15 - Writing and presenting a descriptive essay based on a novel
- 15 Ch 16 and 17 - Coming back to the future
- 16 Ch 18 - The second-last chapter
- 17 Ch 19 - Completing "King of Shadows"
Frequent Questions
What is a memo?
It is an answer sheet or a marking guide.
Why don't all the worksheets have memos?
- Some worksheets don't need memos.
- Sometimes the worksheet includes a marking rubric.
- Some memos are still being developed. They probably won't be completed this year, but if they are, they'll be included here at no extra cost.
